Magnetism in the cuprates is crucial to understanding their superconducting properties and most studies focus on the antiferromagnetism related to Cu spins. Here, using polarised neutron diffraction the authors find evidence of a type of short range magnetic ordering in Ca-doped SrCuO spin-ladder compound whose origins may lie in magnetoelectric loop currents rather than Cu spins
- Dalila Bounoua
- Lucile Mangin-Thro
- Philippe Bourges
